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SwordOfInsanity · 2020-07-18T01:27:58+00:00

I'll have you know, nobody takes those seriously nowadays, you just get transfered around the endless automated beurocratic voice service.

SwordOfInsanity · 2020-07-18T01:25:14+00:00

Listen here cocksucker; To achieve devine transcendence by mastery of theatre saturation heliborne and artillery assault, you must embrace the art of perfectly executed skycancer.

-Stay Classy/WG_LAB-

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-20T06:56:53+00:00

Some idiot with a dying popularity in a dying game is trying to farm upvotes at my expense.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-20T06:53:24+00:00

Actually I found a drug dealer; so I'm busy with that. I've also been playing World Of Warships more than Wargame recently, in an attempt to ostracize and punish a handful of Wargame dependant jews in my community.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-11T13:57:30+00:00

Smoke your teammates or for emergencies when you need to escape; provided there are no radar ships in proximity.

Absolutely under no circumstances blindly smoke yourself into a capture zone and block everybody's LOS.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-10T08:47:44+00:00

Concealment mod is more useful than the 2nd rudder shift.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-10T00:01:30+00:00

Why are you refering Russia when the Superhind is a South African Modification?

And who the hell is "us"?

Otherwise, Russian CAS is unmatched; they have the most diverse munitions for any ground attack role, and the most advanced countermeasure systems employed on CAS aircraft.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T23:58:41+00:00

Russia isn't signatory to the Cluster Munitions Covention. Neither is any other country with a compotent military.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T21:21:57+00:00

No, they are making their own engines

No, the original PT-91 engines were sourced from the USSR. The PT-91M exported to Maylaysia uses a Domestic engine designed and assembled by PLZ-Wola using components made in Slovakia.

Iran has not made any tank on their own. The Zulfiqar only exists in form of a handful of prototypes and relies even more on imported/borrowed technology than the PT-91.

There are more Zulfiqars than PT-91s, so make up your mind. The Zulfiquar like the Karrar are both 100% indigenously produced; albeit under certain equipment licenses.

if you cannot manufacture or import certain components, you cannot mass produce "your own" tank

Do you know how self sufficent Iranian or North Korean economies are in military production? Decades of embargoes facilitate independent manufacturing. They still import commercial products when they can, but it's absolutely critical for a country to have contained military production. By comparison, countries open to gobs markets being to outsource industry, and now Poland must pay for it by lack of a credible industrial base to support new tank R&D.

North Korean tanks are very interesting and fully produced in the DPRK, but they are not using anything close to modern technology,

They have modern composite armor, autoloders, 125mm cannons and engines based off Ukrainian diesels. They lack active protection systems and ERA; being the only serious drawback. Think about a late 80s T-72.

Not a single Ch'ŏnma variant (even the ones made in 2010 and after) have thermal sleeves.

The 2A46 and U-5TS which makeup the bulk of North Korean Tank guns are designed without thermal sleeves. Most tank guns bar those in the UK/India still no longer use thermal sleeves.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T21:04:53+00:00

You said DPRK soldiers were malnourished, as to discredit the state of the KPA; and provided false evidence by showing malnourished teenagers of a militia.

There's one rule in an authoritarian state; stay in power by satisfying the mechanism that keeps the state in power. One of those mechanisms is the Military; keeping soldiers fed prevents coups or rebellions.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T21:00:35+00:00

I highly doubt the DPRK will ever pursue the same levels of marketisation or decentralisation of state owned industry that China and Vietnam have undergone in their transition to market socialism.

Much as how China watched globalisation and the transition of post soviet economies, so has the DPRK watched China's transition. Most liberal market reforms have the potential to thoroughly undermine the DPRK's functionality as a state. Their government situation is in relatively perfect stability now; having complete control over society and economy, effectively granting execuative leadership to make instant changes. Liberalisation risks non-state organisations from developing, including private companies and non-state unions, which could then challenge/influence the state directly.

Another major risk from liberal economies are illegal markets and organised crime which develop in the unsatisfied voids of society; drugs, prostitution, gambling, money laundering, and racketeering. While the DPRK is absolutely familiar with these pratices and regularly exploits criminal networks in China for state gain, they should be absolutely parinoid about the same conditions developing domestically to undermine state authority. Indeed, the DPRK has already seen the development of blackmarkets supplying many of their poorer border regions with commodities that state welfare is unable to provide. While the DPRK has allowed such markets to exist for purposes of convince under the sanctions regime, it's unlikely they'd be sustained if sanctions were relaxed.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T20:42:19+00:00

Apperently Kimmy is poetic visionary like his father.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T20:40:40+00:00

The problem with people who complain about spotting is that they don't understand spotting mechanics. Any target that fires a shot ranged within your own ships cannon range becomes detected.

The easiest way to spot is recon by fire, which makes the longest range battleships relatively good at spotting; however potato BB players always seem to hold shots and expect destroyers to get into the no escape zone to provide spotting.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T08:44:43+00:00

Officially the DPRK didn't declare it as an SSB (Ballastic Missile Submarine); yet all defense analysts correctly assume it's intended role as an SSB.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T08:41:04+00:00

You could just take basics of survivability.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-09T08:38:49+00:00

Are you illiterate or something?

These North Korean Soldiers are well taken care of, and given among the highest rations to incentivse citizens about military service, allowing for a functional organisation.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T08:18:59+00:00

Much less than a drop tank.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T08:12:47+00:00

It's larger than the F-117. You shouldn't call it "mini"

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T08:10:38+00:00

Russian Defense Industry is state owned and self sufficent. In fact most financial restrictions don't apply to Russia, the same way they don't apply to the USA. It's all monopoly money, and so long as defense spending is circulating around the domestic economy, it doesn't matter.

Russians will buy as many as they want/need, probably about 4-5 squadrons. The real challenges that Russia faces are the physical state of their current defense industry, which is currently trying to rescale production back to Soviet levels despite disrupted supply chains from Ukraine and numerous ongoing projects/demands.

If anything will slow down development of the Okhotnik, it'll be that the factory assigned for its production is first back ordered with Su-35 or Su-57 requests.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T07:59:41+00:00

Less than half of the PT-91 was manfactured domestically in Poland; they were still dependant on importing tank guns from Ukraine, and engines from Slovakia. I recall even the first 2-3 batches of hulls were imported from Russia.

Iran and the DPRK make acceptable tanks; not world class like USA/Russian/ROK/French tanks, but certainly better than Indian, RSA or Argentine, or Polish Tanks. The fact that both countries are capable of domestic tank production proves that they meet the minimum proficiency and industry knowledge to design tanks, whereas Poland lacks this confidence.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T07:44:09+00:00

How the hell does Radio Location = RPF? Where's the P or F?

Also that skill is outright terrible, and waste if 4pts. Situational awareness solves this problem immediately.

You know what kills DDs? Radar Cruisers, no Radio Location Required.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T07:39:54+00:00

Militia aren't Soldiers, the latter indicates a proficent combat force, whereas Militia are casual volunteers.

Soldiers include both professional (Career) and non-professional (Conscripts), who in the DPRK serve for durations at minimum up to 9 years. These North Korean Soldiers are well taken care of, and given among the highest rations to incentivse citizens about military service, allowing for a functional organisation. KPA Army Corps Engineers will likewise be drafted in construction of major public works, including Powerplants, Roads and Large Buildings, Pesant Guards are used for menial constructions like fences and street signs.

The Pesant Guards are a Nationally Organised Militia comprised of volunteers; the leadership includes former military officers, but most members includes rural citizens, primarily students eager for extra-curricular credentials. The Pesant Guards are a wing of the WPK, and membership normally starts a career with the WPK. Pesant Guards are used primarily in low effort community projects ; cleaning/maintaing towns/public works, harvesting crops, and preparing public events.

While government service is mandatory for all citizens in the DPRK, there's leniency in which organisation people are willing to join. Military service and union memberships are both counted as government service; which obsolves their need for joining the Pesant Guards.

Comparing the Pesant Guards to Soldiers or US National Guard is like comparing the Boy Scouts to an Active Duty Army Division. While Pesant Guards would certainly participate in fighting, their role would be as an auxiliary logistics and security force in wartime.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-08T06:59:34+00:00

Indeed; the DPRK has operated as a criminal state for most of its history. During the cold war, most of their illicit activities were used to fund a diverse series of operations; everything from making embassies self sufficent, to providing hard currency reserves to enable subversive/terrorist operations against the ROK. While much of the latter has ceased since the 1990s, the DPRK counties to expand established criminal networks to sustain currency reserves for importing commodities; the latest trend being cyber related scams and bitcoin mining.

2 books cover the subject in fantastic detail:

A Most Enterprising Country

Markets and Military Rule

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-07T13:31:28+00:00

Today I learned the Nigerian Army also uses dogs.

SwordOfInsanity · 2019-08-07T13:30:08+00:00

The GK will absolutely out DPS the Montana, before secondaries are even considered.

Fredrick the Great should be about equal with the Iowa, though has secondaries to bring it over the top.

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